Louise Bourgeois - 'I Transform Hate Into Love' | TateShots

Louise Bourgeois was born in Paris in 1911 where her parents ran a tapestry gallery. At 27 she moved to New York City after marrying American art historian Robert Goldwater. She began her career with paintings and drawings in the 1940s and by the 1960s had begun to experiment with wood, plaster, latex and other solid materials to create bold and subversive sculptural forms.
In this film her friend and assistant of over 30 years Jerry Gorovoy explains the childhood trauma and pain Bourgeois was communicating through her work. Tate Modern director Frances Morris describes her first time meeting the artist and discusses the multi-layered themes of loneliness and conflict, frustration and vulnerability in Bourgeois’s prolific career.
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[@nathanieldeclarador1466]

“Art is restoration: the idea is to repair the damages that are inflicted in life, to make something that is fragmented - which is what fear and anxiety do to a person - into something whole.” -LB

[@janswimwild]

‘I transform hate into love’ is one of my favourite quotes from an artist ever. I love Louise Bourgeois’ work and philosophy, this interview was wonderful. ‘This is the definition of sanity...’ an artist being truly in touch with their own emotions. It’s also the definition of honesty and courage.

[@TheJoeMiller88]

The music curation on these Tate videos is on point.

[@BookFreakyTube]

I am an absolute fan of Louise's work.

[@zjy.kkkkkk]

I visited her artwork last summer in Beijing, at the point I don't really understand her work, I just feel a sense of sadness. After seeing this, I really feel in love with it. omg, wish I could re-visit it again, I would feel so much different and connect within this art.

[@kateanderson4416]

The slander in this video is utterly outrageous. She didn't "feed" off of trauma, she used it, but to suggest that she NEEDED it or WELCOMED it to feed her art is to utterly objectify this person and fetishize her as a living art-making machine and NOT a person. Now my second point: If you would to suggest that she deeply wanted the parental love and guidance of her father YOU DO NOT NEED TO SAY SHE IS IN LOVE WITH HER FATHER. @ Jerry. What an insidious comment... Now my last point: I beyond love TATE videos and will not stop watching but this one blew me away in it's shallow commentary and lack of self-awareness. Frances, you prefaced the video saying that you had not thought about your interview questions to Louise, but I would conjecture that the real problem is that in your admiration you are fetishizing/idolizing her, and thereby misconstruing her humanity.

[@antonionegrini5252]

i've been watching this video since 16 and still discovering new ways of loving Louise's works

[@cch5ng]

I had an opportunity to see an exhibit including her spider sculptures at SFMOMA a couple years back. I admire how Bourgeois was able to create a visual language which articulated complex and unresolved emotions towards her subject(s). I believe she fearlessly addressed difficult emotions.

[@camilleleblanc-gagne2148]

I love this idea that in life, we are always "making things, unmaking them, remaking them" trough failure and love. Life is movement and what we do with it and the happiness we obtain from it are also movement.

[@maggiehamm365]

Like so many female artists, Louise Bourgeois has been obscured and left out. I don't remember hearing about her in my art history classes but then art history has been mainly about male artists. I love how she explored herself and her world through her art. To dive so deeply she leaves the common ground and explores the invisible world that drives us, mostly without our awareness that she finds expression for what many of us can't even name. Art can be a great tool in understanding our humanity.

[@Pollymichaelis]

She is pretty well known in contemporary art if you follow that circle, don't think she is left out.

[@Pollymichaelis]

@@KolyaUrtz wow chill with your misogyny there

[@Pollymichaelis]

@@KolyaUrtz all that most artists are male and be out there bullshit? Educaue yourself

[@Pollymichaelis]

@@KolyaUrtz Nevermind I read your other comments you've left in this channel, I should not waste my breath with you 😂

[@Pollymichaelis]

@@KolyaUrtz At least Louise here, a FEMALE artist, is more out there and pushing boundaries than you are :)

[@PatrickNaughtonDoe]

Very much looking forward to this display and a chance to explore more of Louise's work in such an amazing space.

[@PhoebesWorldProductions]

Fascinating.

[@theredpilgrim]

The Gift of insanity! Thanks for this insight! Expression of pain to make something of love!!

[@jackcarr4356]

She said sanity. The gift of sanity, that the artist is privileged to, because he or she is in touch with their subconscious.

[@theredpilgrim]

@@jackcarr4356ok, but personally I feel it is the gift of insanity in this 'sane'world

[@levoy4ge]

she is saving ME

[@Rockandrollaz-d8l]

Except she has vacant of soul. Look it up.

[@CHRISTChrysalisInManhaim]

Posession is interesting...

[@elizabethbogard7568]

I’m glad at last Louise is feeling better about her life. I’ve always felt sorry for her carrying such hatred for so long. She seems a miserable person still. Love? I don’t see it. Her work is great, disturbing, dark and wonderful. BTW, the spider is a weaver with the capacity to harm, even kill.

[@Hassanthehorse]

I think she seemed like a person who had a very hard and dark exterior shell but was agonizingly sensitive underneath it all. So much of her rough, mercurial personality seemed to stem from the betrayal and parental rejection she experienced due to the actions of her father. Perhaps her personality didn't exactly exude loving kindness, but I see so much love, albeit a kind of ambivalent and painful form of it, in some of her works, e.g. Maman.

[@elizabethbogard7568]

I agree with you. To carry this hatred around so long must have been terrible. Some of her work is hard for me to look at. I don’t buy her explanation of the spider as a mother caring for her offspring.

[@kray7574]

(((Wow))) I Am without words.

[@uuubeut]

Self healing of ancestral wounds !

[@heathercush5096]

Louise is reality show star, her family business stories are better than Kardashians.

[@nathanieldeclarador1466]

4/8/22. Life; Saver…

[@Rockandrollaz-d8l]

You are uncomfortable because her allegiance is to hatred and lies. Try and find Love. It will help you.

[@sebastianverney7851]

she had Sun opposition Pluto, which you find in other very powerful, will/ destruction personalities like Nietzsche.

[@alanhansmannkurtcobain8811]

Neat.

[@beeswax888]

YZY SZN brought me here…

[@ThePolskiteddy]

Kitsch of the highest order!!!!

[@tiffanybourgeois7269]

Im mad at you aunty. I know what you did to me. But i miss my birth mom i want her back.i keep your secrets.

[@lesleyseville8425]

Still don't understand her do you you so Called expert.

[@Rockandrollaz-d8l]

You do not want to understand her. Darkened.

[@sunaJH]

I don't find the analysis of these works credible, they speak of insanity, perversity, unsettling...

[@truther4851]

sun Tao She works for the Illuminati - hence her stupid spiders are every where - these spiders are from the dark realms - she is dark -

[@audreyh6628]

@@truther4851 that is the stupidest thing I have ever heard

[@truther4851]

Audrey don't worry your not getting it

[@samanthajones8038]

@@truther4851 IDIOT!!!!!

[@truther4851]

@@samanthajones8038 Hey Moron , if spent six years in art school so l think l know what lm talking about , how many years have you spent ? I know how to annalise art ...

[@bigjohndavid1]

How anyone can admire a nutcase like that is beyond me.

[@tarachokshi5752]

You don't even TRY to understand.

[@truther4851]

John David Because people cant think for themselves - they are told she is great so they believe she is -

[@pincmin]

you think of artists as role models?

[@audreyh6628]

If its so beyond you, better to be quiet no? Or do you always proclaim when you have nothing to say?

[@seanranklinjr968]

Because it's interesting? You dont have to like the person to like their art

[@atis3062]

I just love the spiders and the hanging cloth bodies. So powerful, and oddly serene

[@tarachokshi5752]

Brilliant Contemporary artist. Rest in peace Louise.... and thank you.

[@alexandramontes3944]

Cette femme est fantastique !

[@brendathompson3758]

after 22 years of living next to the national gallery of canada I never bothered to learn about the giant spider sculpture standing outside the gallery. I am blown away.

[@medoll9276]

Does anybody know the name of the song that begins at 1.30? Thanks in advance:)

[@handlesshouldntdefaulttonames]

Mamon has a current home at Crystal Bridges in Bentonville, Arkansas.

[@dansmith4984]

I’m a bit sad that when I saw this artists room in 2016 I didn’t really appreciate it. I knew it was incredibly different even special then before I knew anything really apart from her name.

[@lightislight2024]

Excellent exhibition and interview. Emotion and suffering can be powerful driving forces for extraordinary art-making.

[@francoisebianchi7282]

Artiste fabuleuse.

[@Rockandrollaz-d8l]

Lies. She is a symbol of all things darkened.